The distinctive artist, typographer, and writer Josef Váchal is known to the public primarily for his Blood Novel. The surrealistic exuberance of this defense of 19th-century pulp fiction caught the attention of Jaroslav Brabec and his colleagues, who found a corresponding image of 20th-century "trash." The authors' interest focuses primarily on the silent film era, with a journey through the history of cinema continuing through the advent of sound film to the present day (auteur cinema of the 1960s, modern horror), formally employing techniques such as tinted film. The versatile parody intertwines a colorful plot with the story of the author (Váchal/Paseky), who comments on and creates his book, and is further split in the plot into the characters of Fragonard and the Master. As with Váchal, reality increasingly enters the fiction, so that the only "happy ending" turns out to be the artist's finished work.
- 6.1
- 1993
- Released
- 1h 39m
Ondřej Pavelka
Paseka / Master / Fragonard
Klára Jirsáková
Elzevíra
Raoul Schránil
Prince Pedro di RudibaneraJakub Saic
Kurt
Vladimír Marek
Ignác
Veronika Freimanová
Kuba's WifeJiřina Jelenská
Father Bruna
Rudolf Hrušínský
KubaBarbora Leichnerová
Hanička
Pavel Pípal
Kalina
Jaromír Dulava
Třasoň
Barbora Hrzánová
Honoluluan
Martin Dejdar
Honoluluan
Jitka Asterová
KlárkaKateřina Frýbová
Anna Kocourková
Josef Kemr
Hanička's Grandfather
Jiří Bartoška
Rolf
Oldřich Vlach
Policeman
Milan Šteindler
Fugitive Madman
Vlastimil Bedrna
Vailaurd
Bořivoj Navrátil
Dr. Římsa
Marek Vašut
Captain Rodriguez
Oto Ševčík
Pirate LeaderMartinus Soedjoko
Albatrus Cook
Pavel Nový
Outcast
Roman Skamene
Outcast
Rudolf Hrušínský
Outcast
Jiřina Třebická
Háta
Jan Skopeček
Hermit
Petr Drozda
Salvation Army AgentStanislav Hájek
Tall JesuitJosef Hrubý
Tavern KeeperHelena Lehká
Mother Superior
Miriam Kantorková
MadamDaniel Kranda
Man
Jan Antonín Duchoslav
Outcast DoctorTereza Brabcová
BidderLudmila Michalová
ProstituteZdenka Žerská
ProstituteSylvie Krobová
ProstituteJarmila Bělíková
ProstituteLadislav Klepal
OutcastPetr Reidinger
OutcastViktor Spousta
OutcastArnošt Kurell
PiratePetr Taťoun
Pirate
Petr Voříšek
OutcastLadislav Horáček
PublisherLubomír Švehelka
PublisherVít Kahle
PublisherZdeněk Dragoun
PublisherJindřich Špicner
PublisherJulius Hůlek
PublisherPavel Štefan
PublisherTamara Nathová
ProstituteZuzana Sixtová
ProstituteAlena Zemančíková
ProstituteJaroslav Tomsa
Jiří Kraus
Martin Hub
Frantisek Stupka
Petr Drozda
Karel Vávrovec
František Jákl
Jaroslav Vlk
Leo Stransky
Karel Augusta ml.
Zdeněk Dvořáček
Milan Slepička
Pirate / Bandit
Pavel Vokoun
Arnošt Böhm
Pavel Krátký
Dusan Hyska
Jaroslav Luks
FencerMiloslav Císař
FencerMiroslav Fantyš
FencerJ. Jelínek
FencerP. Valenta
FencerJ. Kára
FencerR. Sýkora
FencerI. Šafránek
FencerM. Doležal
FencerZ. Samec
FencerJ. Andrášek
FencerP. Trojánek
FencerV. Hajdina
FencerZ. Brychta
FencerMartin Dušátko
FencerM. Šnajder
FencerAntonín Češpivo
FencerVlastimil Přáda
FencerJ. Dubin
FencerDaniel Soedjoko
Albatrus Deck Hand (uncredited)Naďa Šafratová
Rudibanerová (uncredited)Ivan Novotný
Tall Boy (uncredited)Růžena Černušáková
Ghost (uncredited)Vladimír Živný
Outcast (uncredited)
Alena Štréblová
Puppeteer (uncredited)Released
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- #based on novel or book
- #parody
